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Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United States, he enrolled in the creative writing programme of the San Francisco Art Institute.
Following his return to West Germany, Kunkel joined the staff of advertising agency Young & Rubicam, then in 1988 joined the Swiss GGK in London, England. After marrying Dutch artist Gerda Bakker, he moved to Amsterdam in 1992 and re-joined Young & Rubicam as creative director, quitting in 1996 to take up directing and writing. He now lives in Switzerland and the Netherlands. His first novel, The Blacklight-Terrarium (1999), won him a major German literary prize. His 2011 novel Subs will be put into a film with the same title by director Oskar Roehler.[1]
Bibliography
- Das Schwarzlicht-Terrarium (2000) ISBN 3-499-22646-4
- Ein Brief an Hanny Porter (2000) ISBN 3-499-22678-2
- Endstufe (2004) ISBN 3-8218-0753-9
- Kuhls Kosmos (2008) ISBN 3-927734-41-1
- Schaumschwester (2010) ISBN 3-88221-690-5
- Subs (2011) ISBN 3453266927
- Wanderful - Mein neues Leben in den Bergen, Eichborn-Verlag, Köln, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8479-0568-4
- Das Wörterbuch der Lügenpresse: Deutsch – Lügenpresse, Lügenpresse – Deutsch. Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8644-5733-3.
- Endstufe. Die unzensierte Originalfassung. Edition Kunkelversum, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3982078939.
- Zum Abschuss freigegeben. Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg 2020, ISBN 978-3864457715.